The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Grapefruit
- Lavender
- Guaiac Wood
- Tonka Bean
- Incense
By the editors · 2 min readBasil and grapefruit crack open with a green-citrus snap that feels like tearing leaves after rain. Lavender slides in quickly, cooling the opening while guaiac wood adds a dry, pencil-shaving smoke that keeps the heart masculine and crisp. As the scent settles, tonka bean sweetens the wood, incense lifts a transparent frankincense haze, and patchouli gives a clean earthiness that anchors the light notes without turning heavy. The result is an aromatic-woody skin veil that stays within handshake distance and fades to a soft, faintly almond-powder glow after four hours. Bright enough for gym bags, polite enough for open-plan offices, it thrives in spring and early-fall warmth when you want freshness without aquatic clichés.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
